A lot has changed since nurses wore white skirts and stockings to work. Fifty years ago, doctors still treated nurses as assistants and the role was seen as an extension of women’s [...]
I am preparing to speak to nurses in Texas for this year’s Nurses Week about the importance of self-care, and I’m finding that what I prepare to say then is apropos to the Healthy Nurse, Healthy [...]
Sharing personal information with patients is natural for nurses. Working closely with patients while caring for them and giving them compassion warrants it. The adage says that you don’t discuss [...]
A Washington state senator who said that some nurses “probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day” received about 1,700 decks of playing cards and thousands of calls and comments [...]
National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6 through May 12. The final day aligns with the birthday of Florence Nightingale. This week is devoted to highlighting all the ways in which [...]
Patt Moon-Updike was only three days into her position as a psychiatric nurse when a young patient with a history of aggression kicked her in the throat, collapsing her trachea. “All I remember [...]
A patient charged with manslaughter for allegedly causing the death of a nurse at Baton Rouge General Medical Center in Louisiana two weeks ago has been arrested. The nurse finished her shift the [...]
“The clock has run out on sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the health care workplace. It’s time to do something about it.” That’s the slogan for Time’s Up Health Care, a campaign [...]
When there is an error in the process, we need to report it. How else are we to determine what happened? How else can we investigate, fix and hopefully prevent the error from happening again? [...]
Incidents of serious workplace violence are four times more likely in the health care industry than in private industry, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nurses, [...]